Check out the recent San Francisco Chronicle article “When the Bayshore Freeway was the Bay Area’s ‘Highway of Tomorrow’.” The article looks back at the San Francisco Bay Area community’s mixed response to the opening of a newfangled freeway in 1947/48. ~Thanks to Asha W. Agrawal for this post

Autonomous vehicles will change everything about urban mobility? Maybe we’ve heard this before… Check out a new article in ENO Weekly by An “Unprecedented Mobility Revolution?” We’ve Been Here Before by Will Leimenstoll Thanks to Asha W. Agrawal for this post

This post by the noted economic historian Adam Tooze looks at the bottlenecks caused by Chicago’s rail infrastructure which is increasingly challenged by the growing and enormous volume of goods that pass through Chicago en route to other parts of the country. While his interest is not principally historical, Tooze gives several examples, with photographs,…